I have an entry under Screened IPs to Block 223.176.0.0/12. Had a new spammer create an account from 223.176.61.159. Are there other admin settings that affect these rules being active? Or, what is going on here? This isn’t the only example.
Lilly
November 30, 2024, 7:55pm
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hmmm, I’m not sure if that CIDR is correct. have a look here:
https://www.ipaddressguide.com/cidr
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR /ˈsaɪdər, ˈsɪ-/) is a method for allocating IP addresses for IP routing. The Internet Engineering Task Force introduced CIDR in 1993 to replace the previous classful network addressing architecture on the Internet. Its goal was to slow the growth of routing tables on routers across the Internet, and to help slow the rapid exhaustion of IPv4 addresses.
IP addresses are described as consisting of two groups of bits in the address: the most significant bits are ...
Based on;
the range this spammer’s IP belongs to, and therefore I am trying to block is;
223.176.0.0 - 223.191.255.255
We have garbage–and only garbage not legitimate posts–coming in from other IPs in this range.